Free Book PSD Mockups, Comic Book PSD Creation Kit + Tutorials

Dear MonsterPost readers, we are happy to greet you this Monday. Do you believe that a good beginning makes a good end? If so, let’s start this week with nice and useful stuff. And what is even more important, the goodies we’ve found for you today are available for free! Would you like to know what they are? We are not going to keep you waiting and just lay all the cards on the table, or, to be more precise, onto the screen of device you are using now.

So, today you will get a wonderful possibility to download some free book PSD mockups, comic book PSD creation kit and learn how to create such things yourself. Yes, we’ve scared up several text and video tutorials for especially curious nerds.

How are mockups usually used?

Artists and designers know that mockups are very helpful in their work. Actually a mockup is a scale or full-size model of a design or device. It can be used for various purposes: teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion and many others. The best feature of the mockup is that it is a prototype, which provides part of system’s functionality. This allows to test the design on the early stage, get feedback from the users and fix all the bugs before they become a problem. Most often mockups are used in software development. They show the end user what the UI will look like avoiding the necessity to build the whole thing. Mockups are real time and effort savers. They can range from very simple hand drawn screen layouts to semi functional user interfaces developed with the help of professional software development tools. The significance of mockups is difficult to overestimate especially when the functions, being simulated demand considerable energy and money inputs.

How can you benefit from free book and comic PSD mockups featured below?

Supposing you’ve drawn a bunch of awesome, artistic works for your customer. How to make your presentation impressive and super realistic? Surely, there are many ways to make a presentation spectacular, but most of them will cost you a penny. Our book mockups are free and easy to apply. Just use the smart layer to drag and drop your masterpieces and enjoy the result. We are sure that your customers will also appreciate the aesthetic side of your presentation. You know, sometimes the titanic work may stay unnoticed due to failed or inexpressive demonstration.

By the way, at the end of our freebies list, you’ll find some effective tutorials that will help you grasp how to create such book and comic mockups yourself. We know that many of our readers like challenges as they lead them to progress, development and raise the level of their professional expertise.

This amazing PSD art book mock-up was created by Alexandru Popa. Undoubtedly, the artists will be highly interested in it. How to use this mockup? It’s very simple. Just use the smart layer to drag and drop your drawings and create a decent, realistic presentation for your small and big chef-d’oeuvres.

Greet another work by Alexandru Popa. This time it’s a photo-based sketchbook mockup with fully separated and movable objects and shadows. The fact that PSD uses smart objects allows you easily place your drawings there.

With this photorealistic, fully-editable PSD magazine mockup you can showcase your magazine spreads in the most impressive manner. All you need to do is drag and drop your design inside the PSB file and the smart objects will finish the job for you. Want more details? Search for them in full preview.

Need to showcase your tri fold brochure design the way it looks in real life? No problem, use this PSD mockup. As usual it works well with smart objects, so drag and drop your designs and enjoy the result.

Here are 4 extremely user-friendly sketchbook mockup PSDs for presentation of your sketches and drawings. Going to use these mockups? Then, simply open the file in Photoshop, double-click on the Smart Object, and paste your image – yes, it’s that easy.

And video ones:

The tutorial uses brushes from the graphicxtras set pack (173 people brushes). This tutorial will give you the guidelines on how to build the panels along with selections and effects. Besides, you’ll learn how to apply the brush strokes as well combine them with CS6 shapes ‘talk balloons’ and then use various effects.

This tutorial will become your personal visual guide through creating your own magazine mock up in Photoshop using smart object, smart filters and some lighting techniques. This mock up allows you to apply any 8.5 x 11 designs to your magazine with the click of a button, which is then applied to the picture with the correct angles, blur and lighting automatically!

In this tutorial you’ll see the process of creation the Metal Drift game promo comic. It’s an FPS vehicular combat game, but it doesn’t have a crucial significance as what we are looking here is the technique.

The author of the tutorial kindly shares the way he creates a comic book. You can view the impressive result of his efforts here: http://fav.me/d5rk42u.

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